Series Information
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS
(Death Record, Counties)
1910-1951
S1179
Series Description
Certificates of death. Entries give name, sex, race, marital
status, age, place of birth, and occupation of decedent; names of
spouse and parents; date, place, and cause of death; date and
place of burial; and names of attending physician and informant.
Arranged chronologically by year and month, then alphabetically
by county, and then alphabetically by name of decedent. Records
from 1924-1930 are arranged similarly, excluding use of the month
in arrangement. Also on microfilm, [MSA SM30], 184 reels. For
1898-1910, see BOARD OF HEALTH [MSA SM156 and S1178]. For later
records see [SM31 and S1268], DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL
HYGIENE [MSA SM38 and S1488], and under same agency Death Record
series [MSA SM39 and S310]. For indexes, see Death Record,
counties, Index series [MSA SM25 and S1176].